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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Helen allowed to do for the first time with the Tuscumbia school children?

2. What was the first the first word Helen connected with the spelling?

3. After the storm, what was it a long time before Helen did again?

4. What caused Helen's tantrums to increase in severity?

5. Learning these finger spellings could be said to be what for Helen?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Helen find frustrating about her second year at Gilman's school?

2. At age nine, what did Helen experience for the first time?

3. How did Helen practice her math skills and what would she always do during math class?

4. How did Helen feel about Anne's attempts to teach her the manual alphabet?

5. What was a first for Helen when she attended Cambridge School for Young Ladies?

6. What were the big events that Helen was able to participate in during 1893?

7. How did Helen's abilities change and what did it take her a long time to be able to do?

8. What happened to Helen's canary?

9. Where did Helen spend her winters?

10. How did Helen feel about her Latin lessons?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In what ways did Helen change throughout the novel? In what ways did she remain the same? Do you think Helen herself recognized how she changed or did it just become more apparent to others? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Why do you think books played such an important part in Helen's life? What plays the most important part in your life? Why do you think that is the case?

Essay Topic 3

Do you think Helen would have been able to continue her studies if Anne had had to accept a different position? What do you think was Anne's influence on Helen's studies?

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